Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Reality

A comment from yesterday,

The rate of crime is a function of the profits divided by the chance of being caught or killed.

Also yesterday my mother rang to tell me that whilst he is in hospital recovering from open heart surgery, my brother's house has been burgled.

The police have not attended and there is nobody available yet to take fingerprints.
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7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Burglary is actually a very important part of the socialist economy. Insurance companies, privately funded, replace the stolen goods. This maintains a bouyant retail sector. The stolen goods are distributed to those on lower incomes, raising their standard of living.
So there are no real losers, are there?
Retailers maintain a healthy turnover, good for profits, good for employment.
The burgled get new stuff.
The poor get better stuff than they had.
The crims get cash for beer and drugs.
The insurance companies get more business (they make a profit).
And the rich pricks pay less for premiums than the difference in the cost of their new stuff.
And the cops don't have to get out of their cars.
Socialism is good.

10:45 AM
Lindsay Mitchell said...

What about those people who can't afford insurance?

What about irreplaceable items of enormous sentimental value?

What about being without necessities for a period of time?

What about people's damaged sense of security and resulting loss of life quality?

I realise your comment is probably tongue in cheek but my sense of humour is somewhat lacking right now. Your summation is uncomfortably close to what seems to have become an acceptable state of affairs.

12:24 PM
Anonymous said...

"What about those people who can't afford insurance?"

But they can afford being burgled?

Surely a socialist Government looks after them somehow.

12:48 PM
Anonymous said...

Lindsay, I'm very sorry for both situations in which your brother finds himself; the surgery & the burglary. I sincerely hope for good news regarding his health outcome. (Shit, listen to me: 'health outcome'. I'm sounding like a bloody bureaucrat. Forgive me!)

The theft makes my blood boil. My little sister's house was burgled two nights in a row while we were all in Sydney for my middle sister's wedding several yrs ago, causing her husband to have to cut his holiday short to get home to deal with it. Bastards made a hell of a mess and even stole my (then) 2 year-old niece's toys, FFS. What I would have given to have had some time with them ...

They live in a provincial town. The bloody police station is less than 1km away - and it took three weeks for a policeman to turn up to take details.

It was beyond pathetic. I hope for considerably better for your brother.

12:57 PM
Anonymous said...

I'd heard all the "police take forever" stories, so I was impressed when a few months ago this happened: I noticed a neighbour's house was about to be burgled (suspicious youths surveying the place that I knew to be empty). I called 911 and within 5 minutes, not one, but two cop cars arrived and dealt with the situation very effectively. And recently I was in court to give evidence, and the people were convicted. Good reason to live in pukekohe I reckon..

7:56 PM
Anonymous said...

We pay around $800 a year in insurance so we're already the losers

(And as I look around Ive got bugger all things worth $800 to steal)

8:42 AM
Anonymous said...

"Called 911" in Pukekohe??

Been watching American TV by any chance?

2:52 PM

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